Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 494, 11 January 1902 — SENATOR HILE IS FOB RECIPROCITY WITH THE CUBANS [ARTICLE]

SENATOR HILE IS FOB RECIPROCITY WITH THE CUBANS

; Case ol Common Humanity to ; Take Care of the • Foundling. 1 W J PLAIN DUTY OF UNITES STATES r Sugar and Tobacco People Work Hari for Redaction of Tariff. Most of Lands and All Cuban Crops Held Under Option by Trusts Which Threaten Annexation if i Concessions Are Not Made in Duties—Options Held by Octopus. D t r 1 Sl'M I \t. • 'ORRESPOXDE.XCE. 1 3 WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 31 There is a steady current cf opinion j setting toward Cuban tariff reduction. Senator Lodge came out first, stalwart in his advocacy of reduction in ; pursuance, of the President’s recommendation. He is powerfully sup ported by Senator Aldrich, chairman of the Finance Committee, woo says Cuba must have relief. Now comes Senator Hale, chairman of the Com mittee on Naval Affairs, with the i . same opinion. He says that the duty * ( of the United States toward Cuba is 1 plain, and that it cannot b' evaded . with honor or conscience. Cuba is the foundling of the western hemisphere. lying on our threshold, and it ' is a case of common humanity, says . Senator Hale, to take care of the infant at 1 a#t until it can toddie atone. The sugar and tobacco people are working hard for reduction of tariff and have a strong lobby here They hold out the threat of annexation if a tariff reduction is not made. Senator Aldrich gave as a reason for his advocacy of tariff redaction this fear of annexation He said the country was not ripe for annexation, and fhat the f people generally, he believed, were s i opposed to it. A trust repree ntatiee last week admitted that most of the land and all 0 of the crops in Cuba were held under c options bv the suear and tobacco h trusts, and that it depended upon the *1 , action of Congress whether these op f | turns would be taken up or not. if. ' the tariff is reduced, the options will Ibe taken np, and the trusts will reap it the benefit. If the tariff is kept up. n the options will ’apse, and the Cabans * will have to shift for themselvr s_ WALTER E CLARK.